God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENSkeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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